Some lawyer (You?) should suggest to them that they file a civil action, in Federal Court, as to "violation of civil rights under color of law" and see if the Democrat US Attorney will make a presentment to the Grand Jury of the same, but criminal, charge.

I think that this is a problem nationwide - that a lot of police think that they can photograph anyone they want, but cannot be photographed themselves.

But, as others have pointed out above, this is not the case. The public probably has more, not less, right to photograph the police, than the other way around. They are acting as state agents, implementing government policy, and their actions are, at least in a liberal democracy such as ours, of important public interest.

Pretty much anytime this has been litigated, the police have lost, for good reason. I don't see this situation being any different.

Finally, a cop and frequent poster over at volokh.com has pointed out that if the police are doing their job right, they shouldn't have any reason to be afraid of being videoed, and should, instead be happy at such. Of course, some aren't, but that is presumably because they know that their actions would not stand up to public scrutiny.

I was looking back to see if you were looking back to seeIf I was looking back to see if you were looking back at me.It was very plain to see that you were looking back to seeIf I was looking back to see if you were looking back at me.~ Jim Ed Brown

So much law in modern times is enacted by people who think the function of the legal system is to give their personal prejudices the force of law that police act most often as political enforcers. They behave more like an army of occupation every day.

If there's a way to focus awareness on this it is to make them do their work in public view. Naturally they dislike it and deter the practice of photographing them with the same boot on your neck approach that they use to deal with mundanes in general.

Anyone who points a camera at a cop has my encouragement and respect. Even if it is a bunch of commies doing it.

I was at the Pentagon protesting Gulf I and the police photographed us, and I walked the line of police and photographed them, and the whole crowd cheered. If the Pentagon police don't mind me photographing them, why wouldn't these chumps mind? I STILL have the photographs 26 years later.